Good information is the key to success in Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets, yet it is one of the most difficult things to obtain. Because of this Fairbourne Consulting has designed an innovative process to gather and analyze data from the BoP. Our team has applied this process in our current project with the MIF in Jamaica working with YUTE to identify true market demands of the inner city areas of Kingston.

We at the MIF are proud to launch our thoroughly redesigned website. We have worked hard to make it function more effectively, both as a public good and our primary communications channel.

The MIF mandate is broad—to promote growth and poverty reduction driven by the private sector. With our donors’ support, we have acted as a laboratory since our beginnings in the early 90’s, testing hundreds of innovative development interventions that expand access to finance, markets and skills, and basic services for poor and low income populations—their businesses, their farms, and their households. Now we are committed to open up our laboratory—to crowdsource ideas and proposals and to do a better job of sharing our own knowledge and results.

In recent months, there have been interesting developments in the world of Public Private Partnerships which will affect how governments manage these programs in the future. I had the opportunity to attend the PPP Days 2012 in Geneva the last week of February to discuss with representatives from over 90 countries.

Although Latin America and the Caribbean were outnumbered by European, African and Asian countries, the region stood out in terms of its global importance in the PPP market worldwide. Between 1990 and 2011, it accounted for 31% of PPPs globally. Latin America and the Caribbean is also the largest destination for PPP investment in the world. We at the Multilateral Investment Fund have been a partner from the beginning for many of the most significant PPP programs in the region including Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico as well as new and promising PPP programs such as Uruguay – all of which were represented at the conference.

Key issues of the discussion centered on:

renewed pressure of the costs of financing,

shortened tenors in many private markets, and

transparency, governance and accountability.

domingo, 18 de marzo de 2012/Author: David Bloomgarden/Number of views (5236)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: No rating